TODD SEAVEY
author of Libertarianism for Beginners and writer of/speaker about many other things

Monday, April 1, 2013

Going Mostly-Offline for Real (plus the Fixx, Bigfoot, and superheroes)

April Fool’s Day or not, I’m really going to kick the Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and e-mail
addictions – in part to give me more time for things like editing the
comics section of the soon-to-launch LibertyIslandMag.com,
writing a series of more serious political essays, ghostwriting, and more
(including stuff for you, perhaps, if you want me to add your project in these
areas or TV production or radio commentary or such to the schedule).

My friend Kyle Smith
here summarizes some
great reasons to spend less time online.Read it if you still have a sufficient attention span (h/t fellow
crypto-semi-Luddite Kevin Walsh).By
contrast, ignore Kyle’s kind words about G.I.
Joe Retaliation.

But there are entertaining
moments coming up in April to keep you occupied while I’m mostly-silent
(really, despite me posting this on April Fool’s Day):

•April 7: If you
know me and want to join me for the Fixx,
let me know before someone else claims the second ticket I have – and here’s a fan’s video for
their song “Saved by Zero” using footage from Tron Legacy (I think this marks exactly 40 times I’ve mentioned
that band online, by the way – fitting for one of the coolest acts ever to
grace the Top 40).

•April 8: I think
our Dionysium topic on Monday the
8th (8pm at Muchmore’s) may be the timely one of gay marriage – but contact me one week prior if you want to volunteer
to debate that or a different topic.

Announcing (not to mention planning) the Dionysium events
farther in advance is one of the few things I’ll keep using Blogger, Twitter,
Facebook, and e-mail for – but I’ll provide links here to other big impending
projects as well.

•April 13: The
conspiracy theorists I’ve so often mocked despite their vigilant, paranoid
resistance to the powers that be (including in my “Conspiracy Week” of entries
just ended) might want to note that the 13th will mark exactly 6 decades, 6 months, and 6 days since the
barcode was patented.Plan
accordingly.Then pay your taxes.

•April 24: The
best-organized group of purported UFO
witnesses, the ones behind the so-called Disclosure Project that has held
attention-getting press conferences of ex-military people and the like at the
National Press Club, will take their best shot at convincing the world we are
not alone – and that the government possesses alien technology – when they
release the new documentary Sirius.

If that doesn’t contain proof, I never want to hear from the
extraterrestrial-believers again.

•April 30:
Coincidentally, one of the most-hyped
Bigfoot documentaries, Shooting Bigfoot, will be released six days after
the UFO one, at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto.The site Facebook.com/FindBigfoot has vowed
to shut down if this documentary doesn’t contain persuasive footage of a Bigfoot
eating and then being shot and preserved (in Las Vegas) for study (by a guy who
admits he’s previously faked a dead Bigfoot).

If that doesn’t contain proof, I never want to hear from the
Bigfoot-believers again.

[NOTE: That report of an Avengers/X-Men movie crossover was an April Fool’s story.]